COVID-19, health officials say less than one per cent of shots have been wasted.At a technical briefing held with media Wednesday, Johanu Botha, co-lead of Manitoba’s vaccine implementation task force, said so far of the nearly 300,000 doses delivered since vaccinations started in December 2020, 2,348 have not made it into arms.
Manitoba health officials to give latest COVID-19, vaccination numbers That puts the province’s total vaccine wastage at roughly .8 per cent.“My understanding … is that is incredibly low given that we have essentially 300,000 doses administered,” Botha said.“I think it is well below what we usually see in other immunization campaigns.”It’s also considerably lower than the five per cent limit the province has set.